J as an openly gay man | Michael Re | The Guardian

Contents:

• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• 5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe?

The article was ocsned by a story about a gay teenager Oh who was sug his high school after school officials prohibed him om wearg a T-shirt that said, “J Is Not a Homophobe. Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s.

While ’s reasonable to assume that J and his fellow Jews first-century Palte would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no rerd of his ever havg mentned homosexualy, let alone exprsed particular revulsn about .... Never the Bible do J himself offer an explic prohibn of homosexualy. Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about .

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy. So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn.

Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them.... In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God.

5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY

On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals. On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals.

'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

Dpe the hang-ups of people like Pl, J was not a homophobe. Wh clary and passn, this book sets forth the Bible’s teachg on sexualy om a plementarian perspective, alg wh ntroversial issu such as homosexualy and polygamy.

Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe?